Remove styling

[flying-sheep]

Users like to be able to select their own styles and themes.

I would never use something that diverges noticably from my system look&feel

[ghost]

Thanks, we will work on more easy styling on the future... 😸 mainly for non-Qt DEs.

[flying-sheep]

thank you! maybe a command line argument or environment variable will be the right approach.

and e.g. on OSX the visual style is already known, so we can detect if running there and apply a style sheet specific for OSX

[ghost]

@flying-sheep I am thinking something like using ~/.unicodemoticons.css with a Style Sheet for Theming.

• If no ~/.unicodemoticons.css file, write a basic default style sheet.
• If ~/.unicodemoticons.css file, read style sheet from there and apply it.
• Add new Option Set UI Style allows to Edit that ~/.unicodemoticons.css file.
• The ~/.unicodemoticons.css opens with your favorite IDE/Editor/WYSIWYG-Editor.

Some friendly access for the CSS is needed anyway, on old GTK Desktops Qt5 by default looks ugly.

😃

[flying-sheep]

make that $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/unicodemoticons/style.css or so and i’m all for it.

look here:

from pathlib import Path
import xdg

config_path = Path(xdg.BaseDirectory.save_config_path('unicodemoticons'))
css_path = config_path / 'style.css'

with css_path.open() as css_f:
    try:
        css = css_f.read()
    except IOError:
        css = None

if css == None:
    css = DEFAULT_CSS
    with css_path.open('w') as css_f:
        css_f.write(css)

[ghost]

@flying-sheep I dont like style.css is obvious is the style, its like say javascript.js.
I think unicodemoticon.css is good, and why a folder if its a single file ❔
(We will use folder if we need multiple files, but its not the use case right now)

On Linux I dont have any $XDG_CONFIG_HOME,
I have $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS but those are root only and contains a list.

I am using the following, is more or less crossplatform:
style_file = os.path.join(os.path.expanduser("~"), ".unicodemoticon.css")

On Linux its /home/user/.unicodemoticon.css, always hidden file,
on Os X should be /Users/user/.unicodemoticons.css I dont have Mac anyways,
on Windows, well... it do not even support Unicode properly.

I dont have problem with pathlib since is Std Lib BuiltIn on Python3,
but I want to avoid being tied to third party xdg as much as possible.

The full function I am using right now and testing locally is:

def set_or_get_stylesheet(self, stylesheet=QSS_STYLE):
    style_file = os.path.join(os.path.expanduser("~"), ".unicodemoticon.css")
    if not os.path.isfile(style_file):
        with open(style_file, "w", encoding="utf-8") as style_file_object:
            style_file_object.write(stylesheet.strip())
    with open(style_file, "r", encoding="utf-8") as style_file_object:
        stylesheet = style_file_object.read().strip()
    return stylesheet

Thanks for Collaboration on this; Let me know what you think...
😄

[flying-sheep]

On Linux I dont have any $XDG_CONFIG_HOME

the spec says that it’s ~/.config if the $XDG_CONFIG_HOME variable is not set.

and the spec is there in order to eliminate all the junk in ~:

$ ls .* | wc -l
1122

i’d love if you didn’t add to it and respect the XDG spec.

it’s also really easy to implement yourself if you don’t want to depend on pyxdg:

config_path = os.getenv('XDG_CONFIG_HOME', os.path.expanduser('~/.config'))

We will use folder if we need multiple files, but its not the use case right now

yeah, that was my motivation: we can also store a config file in there. and then it’s either .config/unicodemoticon/unicodemoticon.{css,js} or .config/unicodemoticon/{style.css,config.cfg} (or something else?)

[flying-sheep]

oh, and to also ideally support other OSs:

if sys.platform.startswith('darwin'):
    config_path = os.path.expanduser(`~/Library/Preferences`)
else if sys.platform.startswith('win32'):
    config_path = os.getenv('APPDATA')
else:
    config_path = os.getenv('XDG_CONFIG_HOME', os.path.expanduser('~/.config'))

[ghost]

Ok, will try to use that snippet this weekend, we are at ~ 7.777 Downloads / Month on UnicodEmoticons.

• https://twitter.com/juancarlospaco/status/604447602994753536

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